Growing up in Detroit, Michigan, I learned about the accomplishments and struggles of Blacks from many sources. I learned from trips to the museum, history classes, television specials, reading books, ...

My account for the Civil Rights movement came from the history books like many others. It wasn't until adulthood, that my father said that he and Ezell Blair of the ...

Hello!! I learned of the civil rights struggles when I became an adult and researched it myself. Here in philadelphia the children are taught limited information on the black struggles. The ...

As an African American woman, I see so much working in a token booth at High Street in NYC. As much as I hate my job I am grateful for ...

Because my mother and aunt went to Fisk University in Nashville, TN, during the 1920s, I always heard about W.E.B. Du Bois and all their instructors at home. My mother ...

I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, and my childhood there traversed the 60's and 70's. My parents taught me Black history in ways big and small; my ...

On the eve of the 238th birthday of the United States Marine Corps, I must say that my knowledge of the history of African Americans in this country was learned ...

I recently wrote that I learn about African American history from my grandparents I forgot that I also learn some in high school. I really love doing research about our ...

40 acres & a mule- I live where freed slaves’ descendants still own their 40 acres. The Community of Royal, Sumter County, FL, has a state-issued historic marker. Founded in ...

I learned about the accomplishments and struggles through a plethora of activities and people - my dad, reading, black history programs and ultimately a life-scarring painful experience. I've had to ...

First of all, I would like to thank PBS & Henry Louis Gates Jr. because this informative, educational collaboration is one of the most effective ways to pass along this ...

Over the years I have become more intrigued with my black heritage. Now that I am older, I realize that important facts about black history was with held from the ...

Born in Guilford County, North Carolina, in 1888 & 1890 this lovely duo is Marvin & Mattie Brooks, affectionately known as "Papa & Granny."  Together they raised 15 children. They ...

I was always asking questions when I was a little girl because I wanted to know or I thought I did. My grandfather was born around 1906 and my grandmother ...

Share a story of growing up is a story of many memories that were taken for granted by many, especially by those of us growing up in Harlem in the ...